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“I was thrown out of fourth grade because I couldn’t write my own name, and it’s all been downhill from there” - Linus Torvalds (www.yarchive.net)

Scientists research man missing 90% of his brain who leads a normal life (www.cbc.ca)

Jails banned in-person visits in order to maximize revenue from voice and video calls as part of a "quid pro quo kickback scheme" with prison phone companies (arstechnica.com)

Across the United States, hundreds of jails have eliminated in-person family visits over the last decade. Why has this happened? The answer highlights a profound flaw in how decisions too often get made in our legal system: for-profit jail telecom companies realized that they could earn more profit from phone and video calls if...

Work permits grow, but undocumented immigrants are left hungry for access (thehill.com)

Desktop Linux Market Share: April 2024 (itsfoss.com)

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‘Insane’: Xi’s call for ethnic Chinese to tell Beijing’s story stirs anger (www.aljazeera.com)

Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/13000698...

Evictions skyrocket nationwide as housing costs rise (www.nbcnews.com)

‘He was a human being’: US prisoners are dying from treatable conditions (www.theguardian.com)

Exclusive: a Guardian investigation finds that inmates who died of preventable conditions were deemed malingerers and ‘time wasters’...

Woman breaks her neck inside St. Clair County Jail, isn't taken to the hospital for days (www.wxyz.com)

‘They were moving me all around and I had a broken neck.’...

For years tourists have ridden boats through this sacred Australian natural wonder. A new ban will stop them in their tracks (www.cnn.com)

The Horizontal Falls are one of Australia’s strangest natural attractions, a unique blend of coastal geography and powerful tidal forces that visitors pay big money to see up close....

Has Reddit’s traffic really quadrupled in 6 months? (www.bandt.com.au)

If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?

Mexico's president says his country is breaking diplomatic ties with Ecuador after embassy raid (apnews.com)

Mexico is breaking off diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican Embassy in Quito to arrest a former Ecuadorian vice president who has sought political asylum there after being indicted on corruption....

Fredericktown veterinarian charged with sex with a pony, 2 counts of domestic violence (www.knoxpages.com)

Fredericktown veterinarian charged with sex with a pony, 2 counts of domestic violence...

Baltimore bridge salvage: 'This is a game of Jenga you don't want to lose' (www.bbc.com)

US Army Colonel Estee Pinchasin looks out at the thousands of tonnes of twisted, broken steel and concrete jutting out from the dark waters of Maryland’s Patapsco river, and delivers her assessment: an “unforgiving mangled mess”....

C O L O N I Z E (slrpnk.net)

Google's Emoji 15.1 Support In Noto Color Emoji (blog.emojipedia.org)

Seems I missed this, but all the women in my life are going to spam me with 🙂‍↔️

The Shift: Biden says he’s ‘outraged’ over killing of aid workers . . . and moves to send Israel more weapons (mondoweiss.net)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14088188...

‘In 24 Hours, You’ll Have Your Pills’: American Women Are Traveling to Mexico for Abortions (www.wired.com)

Since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, more women have been crossing the border to Mexico for abortion medications and procedures....

Russia increases gasoline imports from Belarus as domestic supplies shrink (www.reuters.com)

Russia has increased gasoline imports from neighbouring Belarus in March to tackle the risk of shortages in its domestic market because of unscheduled repairs at Russian refineries after drone attacks, four industry and trade sources said on Wednesday....

Decoding the Origin of Life: Scientists Solve Early Earth RNA Puzzle (scitechdaily.com)

This study reveals how life’s complexity could originate from simple RNA molecules on early Earth. Through experiments demonstrating RNA’s recycling and replication abilities under conditions such as low salinity and high pH, the research suggests life could emerge from minimal molecular sets in environments akin to volcanic...

Harnessing the 2024 Eclipse for Ionospheric Discovery with HamSCI (science.nasa.gov)

As the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, draws closer, a vibrant community of enthusiastic amateur radio operators, known as “hams,” is gearing up for an exciting project